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State Department, Sept. 30, 2020 - INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE 2022 DIVERSITY IMMIGRANT VISA PROGRAM (DV-2022)

State Department, Sept. 15, 2020 "On September 4, 2020, the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia ruled in Gomez v. Trump that the Department must make good-faith efforts to expeditiously process and adjudicate DV-2020 diversity visa...

DOS, Sept. 9, 2020 - Diversity Visa (DV-2020) Update "On September 4, 2020, the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia ruled in Gomez v. Trump that the Department must make good-faith efforts to expeditiously process and adjudicate DV...

DOS, Apr. 27, 2020 "The Department of State is postponing the opening of the Entrant Status Check for the DV-2021 applicants from May 5 to June 6, 2020. The Department’s resources are currently being used in our role in responding to the...

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE 2021 DIVERSITY IMMIGRANT VISA PROGRAM (DV-2021) Program Overview The Department of State annually administers the statutorily-mandated Diversity Immigrant Visa Program. Section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA...

Almaqrami v. Pompeo "Plaintiffs were offered the chance to apply for a select number of “diversity visas.” The government never granted them visas, and the statutory deadline to do so has now passed. But this case is not moot because...

Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 108 / Wednesday, June 5, 2019 "This interim final rule is promulgated to require alien petitioners for the Diversity Visa Program to provide certain information from a valid, unexpired passport on the electronic...

Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 186 / Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - "The Department of State annually administers the statutorily-mandated Diversity Immigrant Visa Program. Section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) provides for...

Lomi Kriel, Houston Chronicle, Jan. 3, 2018 - " Stephen Yale-Loehr, an immigration law professor at Cornell University , said that despite Trump's claims, no government or even individual can game the system since it is a true lottery. Until...

Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 176 / Wednesday, September 13, 2017 - "This public notice provides information on how to apply for the DV–2019 Program."

Christopher Dickey, Daily Beast, Nov. 2, 2017 - "An Egyptian Muslim just-arrived in the United States on a Diversity Visa — precisely the type that Donald Trump is trying to blame for the bike-path murders on Halloween in Lower Manhattan —...

Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 180 / Friday, September 16, 2016 - "This final rule is promulgated to clarify that photographs submitted as part of a diversity visa lottery entry package must have been taken no more than six months before the date...

Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 180 / Friday, September 16, 2016 - "This public notice provides information on how to apply for the DV–2018 Program."

"An annual U.S. visa lottery program that offers immigrants a chance to become permanent residents drew more than 11 million applicants this year, as lawmakers appear poised to end it. The so-called “diversity visa program” attracted...

"The 2016 Diversity Visa Program (DV-2016) will open at noon, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT-4), Wednesday, October 1, 2014, and will close at noon, Eastern Standard Time (EST), Monday, November 3, 2014. Applicants must submit entries electronically...